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The Daily Laws by Robert Greene

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Key Takeaways

  1. Daily study is necessary for all people.
  2. Life’s task is to express your uniqueness through your work.
  3. When you find your uniqueness, it feels natural, it feels like destiny.
  4. First move towards mastery is always inwards.
  5. Occupy your own niche – embrace your strangeness.
  6. Bring self-reliance is critical. Depending on others is misery.
  7. Operating with long-term goals brings tremendous clarity and resolve.
  8. Become who you are by learning who you are.
  9. The Apprenticeship – learn from a master, this leads to transformation of mind and character.
  10. Learn best by practice and repetition – active, real world learning.
  11. Love the detailed work.
  12. Get to the inside – mastery requires internalization.
  13. Retain the craftsman’s spirit – it’s the work that matters.
  14. Patience critical for creativity.
  15. Person with the more global view and longer time horizon wins.
  16. What does not move is dead. Motion equals life, possibilities, keep moving.
  17. Need for certainty is the greatest disease the mind faces.
  18. People cannot envy the power they themselves have given to someone who seems not to desire it.
  19. Weak character will not realize all the other good qualities a person may possess.
  20. Cui bono? Ask who benefits to deduce motives.
  21. Ability to measure people is the most important skill of all – take person into account before making any move.
  22. Mask newness, change in tradition – embrace the old, while peddling the new.
  23. Display a hint of weakness – nobody loves perfection.
  24. A seducer sees all of life as a theater, every one an actor.
  25. Insecurity is anti-seduction.
  26. Make use of contrasts.
  27. Familiarity is the death of seduction.
  28. Influence comes from being able to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and understand what it is they want, what they’re interested in.
  29. Arguing is anti-seductive. Use hammer and light touch.
  30. There is nothing more therapeutic than action.
  31. What limits individuals is the inability to confront reality, to see things for what they truly are.

What I got out of it

  1. A  thought provoking and fun read that helped me recall many of the ideas and concepts i read about in his previous books.
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